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Best Web Design Tips Revealed

Designing your own website is not the easiest thing to do in the world. Unless you are an expert with Adobe Dreamweaver or a similar product, you’re probably going to be stuck with secondary programs and services that will create a substandard type of website. Modern website designers have come a long way in regard to full-featured programs that allow you to create websites on the fly. You just have to know where to look in order to find the best ones, which can also be the easiest way for you to get your website up and running quickly. Here are a couple of the best website design tips available that you can make it profitable site that can start bringing in some income on a regular basis.

Learning how to use an HTML editor is a skill that every Internet marketer should learn. Once you are making enough money to hire somebody to do this for you, then you can use your time more wisely by creating new sources of revenue and having people create these pages and posts online that will sell your product, or the affiliate products that you are marketing. One of the best ways to learn HTML is to go to Google and search for “HTML tutorials”. This will provide you with hundreds of YouTube videos with people that are able to help you design your website using simple tips and tricks that they are currently using today. However, if you don’t want to build your own website, you need to do the following.

If you get hosting from some of the top domain providers like GoDaddy, they give you WYSIWYG editors that can make website creation very simple to do. Since you already have purchased a domain from them, you should be able to easily connect your web hosting with the domain and start using their WYSIWYG editor to build your site the same day. Like most things, there is always a learning curve until you are fully competent using a new system. By using your domain providers hosting, and their web design software, you should be able to create a good mini niche site to help you with your dream of becoming an online entrepreneur.

One thing you need to always think about when it comes to web design for your affiliate sites is to make sure that it references, especially in the graphics, the affiliate program that you are marketing. If you are marketing and affiliate program for fishing, then you need to have your web design team create a site that matches this particular motif. If you are doing this yourself, the same concept applies. You want to be able to design the site on your own to emulate the affiliate program, or the product, that you are selling.

When you are finished creating your site, you will have to add new content that is 100% original. This is a common flaw that many IMers overlook despite the recent updates by Google in its attempt to get rid of spam sites once and for all. Whether you use Dreamweaver and learn how to use it through the tutorials on YouTube, or you are using one of the WYSIWYG editors on your hosting, you will have a better chance of making sales by designing your website to be user-friendly, something that every person in web design understands, and implements, with each one that they create.

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Comments

A simple Google search will show how competitive the business is. However,
I’m giving freelancing a try on the to see what kind of business I can get.
I’m trying to cater to small businesses who do not have a web presence.
I’m amazed at how many businesses there are out there that don’t have a web
site. ﻿

Here’s the deal: it really comes down to 1) if you enjoy it, 2) how hard
you want to work and learn and 3) connections through clients. Just knowing
some HTML and CSS is not enough. Learn all HTML5 and CSS3, some basic PHP,
jQuery (JavaScript), SASS (use a compiler) and the ins and outs of
Wordpress. On the programming side (JavaScript and PHP), you really only
need to focus on the programming that directly relates to the front end
design – make friends with programmers. You’ll need them to “plug-in” to
your front end design if you want to build some heavy stuff.

The most important thing is to have a basic understanding of how everything
“fits” together. Then refine the knowledge with that understanding.

If you’re not interested in the coding process and not intrigued by making
that code work, then you won’t enjoy web design. I think one can be
successful at anything they greatly enjoy- everything else will fall into
place. ﻿

When I got into this industry, everyone told me the same thing; “Don’t do
it” “the market is flooded” “Do it yourself has taken over”, etc. I’ve
been doing Web Design for the past 6 months now, and with the few clients
I’ve had, I find there is no substitute for customer service, and how hard
you work at your field.

I’ve only been in the industry a short time, so my competition with my
current experience level would currently be at the lower end of the market
– like the techs on E-Lance for $5 an hour in several countries, Uni
Students paying their way, etc – But even still, the clients that I’ve had
have been stoked with the work that I do, and I’ve gotten referrals off of
them, too.

Never under estimate the power of excellent customer service, and what the
value of, not just your field as a whole, but HOW GOOD and how hard you
work in your field is worth.﻿

since 10 days now and i still can’t find a client ion Elance peopoleperhour
Odesk freelancer
even if i’m so good in designing
i think the reason is that it’s too competitive every job post there over
30 apply thats why i never get picked ﻿

Everyone told me the exact same thing, don’t get into it blah blah blah.
After I made the decision to commit and go full time as a freelancer I
landed my first client a week and a half later and I’ve been none stop busy
for the past four months working on projects. There’s more work than I can
keep up with!! Haha﻿

I’m sorry, but this is simply not true. At all. I’ve been doing web design
professionally for 19 years now – and moved around in several cities while
doing so. This industry is BRUTAL. It’s always been rough, but since around
2009, it’s absolutely cut throat. In the last 4 years specifically, web
design shops have flocked to sites like Guru and eLance for their design
“needs”. While this was an isolated problem for programmers 8 years ago,
it’s a serious issue for designers now. Outsourcing to people who will
charge 1/10th what a U.S. developer asks for is very common practice these
days. The outsourcing issue is only the tip of the iceberg. That doesn’t
even address the thousands of kids just getting out of college ready to
begin their web design career and will gladly take a job for 25k a year in
the states. When I started doing it, it was a very rare profession. These
days, there’s probably 6 or 7 guys on your street that consider themselves
“web designers”. There is also the truck-loads of template sites (fixed and
responsive). Don’t forget sites like Squarespace and Weebly. ANYBODY can
throw a site together now a with a CMS and shopping cart to boot! It’s a
different world from what this video would lead you to believe. I have
plenty of friends and past co-workers who also practice web design and they
have ALL struggled greatly in the last 6 years or more. After nearly two
decades into my career, I can safely say that I’m moving into Illustration,
print and logo design as hard and fast as possible. I’ve always offered
these services, but now I’m focusing on them as real revenue sources. In
the last two years, the bottom has literally dropped out of any stability
within the web design world in most major U.S. cities. Especially if you
work for a web shop. Yes, there’s a “dip”, but it’s NOT a significant one.
Web design is simply not hard. If you have any design skill at all and can
fight through learning CSS (HTML is simple and doesn’t even count), you can
do it. I believe – in 2014 – it’s far better to specialize in something
more advanced as a designer/artist. ﻿

I think when people say this, a lot of time they are referring to websites
that make “free websites” for businesses, or being able to hire
designers/programmers in other countries for much much less. How do you
reply to those talking about those situations?﻿

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